by Clay | Aug 30, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
I had just dropped my wife off at the Cherokee County Airport (KCNI), north of Atlanta, on our way back from Tennessee. We had flown to Nashville for an overnight trip to surprise her mom for her birthday (read the blog here). Having been at a conference in Atlanta,...
by Clay | Aug 16, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
We called it the south practice area. Flying over open fields and farmland in Georgia’s lake country was a good place to practice. There are plenty of emergency landing fields, few populated areas and little terrain. It’s quiet airspace, too. I’ll...
by Clay | Aug 3, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
Basic chair flying can be done anywhere. You could be actually sitting in a chair, if you like it literal, reading through a checklist and visualizing the steps. Or maybe you walk around outside with a chalk runway on the ground, checklist in hand, talking through...
by Clay | Jul 26, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
In my house, there are not many requests as wholesome as “dad, can I play flight simulator?” A request for a second helping of vegetables might compete, but as a lifelong avgeek, X-Plane is screen time for my 8 year old, Reid, that I can get behind. I...
by Clay | Jul 19, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
My first experience with a flight simulator was as a kid. It was Chuck Yeager’s Advanced Flight Trainer, sometime in the early 90’s. At the time, I was in awe of my big brother’s friend who had the computer and joystick. That experience with a flight...
by Clay | Dec 28, 2016 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
We are in the air and on the way to Shelbyville! In part one and part two of our three part flight simulator cross country series, we started up our Cessna 172 in Smyrna (KMQY), just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. We listened to the weather, taxied to the runway,...
